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Comment by sarciszewski

11 years ago

Authenticated and encrypted? That throws a wrench into things.

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jessaustin  11 years ago

The authentication provided by the extant PKI system is much weaker than the encryption provided. Any CA can do anything it wants, and browsers trust lots of them.

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